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Artist Biography Kay Faye Fialkoff creates hand crewel embroideries in a themed series titled Prayers for the Earth. Her circular motifs are worked in a realistic style, using traditional surface embroidery stitches and weaving. Kay works on silk fabric with silk and rayon threads. She achieves vivid color variations by combining threads side by side, in layers, and in the needle. Her subjects are habitat-specific birds and plants of wetlands, meadowlands, and woodlands. While living and working in New York City, she took courses primarily at the Art Students League and the School of Visual Arts and researched and studied at the Donnell Library’s art book collection. After moving to suburban New Jersey, she transitioned over time from oil and watercolor to needle and thread. Ms. Fialkoff has been most influenced by Vincent Van Gogh’s work. Color, texture, pattern design, drawing and painting techniques, and especially his connection to Japanese woodblock prints captivated, inspired, and guided her. Prayers for the Earth suites have been exhibited at the Paterson Museum, the Belskie Museum of Art and Science and the Pine Gallery. They have been published in Needle Arts, The Record, Lilith, and Inner Realm magazines and in her memoir, Finding Katy. Ms. Fialkoff’s art works are held in private collections in the United States.
In addition, she has been a recipient of a grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities and the State of New Jersey Library.
The goal for the completed collection of Prayers for the Earth: Wetlands,
Meadowlands and Woodlands suites is that it be housed in one location as a
meditational invitation to viewers to connect with nature.
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